Software development

Software development

Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. It's useful until it's not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting!

At least one bug hunter who found an open source security flaw and reported it months ago via HackerOne's backlogged Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program finally got paid for his work - but at a drastically reduced reward rate. The security researcher found a medium-severity vulnerability that previously paid $1,843. As of Monday, HackerOne's IBB pays $297 for the same severity level.

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the company that generates all official SDKs for the Claude API. Founded in 2022, Stainless also produces CLI tools and MCP servers. With this acquisition, Anthropic aims to further expand the connectivity of Claude agents with external data and tools. Stainless converts API specifications into SDKs in languages including TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, and Kotlin. Hundreds of companies use Stainless to generate their own SDKs, command-line interfaces, and MCP servers, according to Anthropic.

KDE Plasma has won me over. It's gorgeous, smooth, fast, and as stable as any desktop on the market. On top of all that, it has features that other desktops only dream of, including KDE Activities, KRunner, Window Rules, and KDE Connect.

When a security update cannot install because the operating system misjudges the state of its own boot partition, the problem isn't only storage. The real problem is trust in the update process. This is a basic hygiene failure dressed up as a technical issue. An update that cannot reliably detect available space on the EFI System Partition is not a small miss. It is a reminder that even mature platforms still struggle with dependency awareness and pre-flight validation.

Miller's employer shut down those VMs at the end of the working day to free up resources for overnight jobs. He therefore wrote a cleanup routine that removed the drives and backed up their contents. This story took place in 1981, a time when it was possible for code written by a 21-year-old to go into production without much scrutiny.